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Differential change in affective intensity and the forgetting of unpleasant personal experiences.
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“Holmes (1970) systematically investigated the interaction between valence and intensity and found that recall was greater for pleasant events than for unpleasant events and that memories for unpleasant events decreased in intensity more quickly than did memories for pleasant events.”
From Emotional Intensity Predicts Autobiographical Memory Experience (2004) · cites this paper as Holmes, 1970
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Metadata
- Authors
- Holmes, D. S.
- Affiliations
- Educational Testing Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- Holmes, David S.
- ORCID
- Holmes, David S.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1970
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 234-239
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W1978913125
- Cited by
- 152
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- emotional intensity, forgetting, personal experience, emotional memory, memory retention, emotional arousal
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Female, Hostility, Humans, Male, Memory, Repression, Psychology, Time Factors
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